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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Mentzelia uintahensis
|accepted_authority=(N. H. Holmgren & P. K. Holmgren) J. J. Schenk & L. Hufford
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Novon
|place=19: 120. 2009
|year=2009
}}
|common_names=Uintah blazingstar
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=E
|label=Endemic
}}
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Mentzelia multicaulis var. uintahensis
|authority=N. H. Holmgren & P. K. Holmgren
|rank=variety
|publication_title=Syst. Bot.
|publication_place=27: 758, fig. 5. 2002
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Loasaceae;Mentzelia;Mentzelia sect. Bartonia;Mentzelia uintahensis
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Loasaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Mentzelia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>section</small>[[Mentzelia sect. Bartonia]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Mentzelia uintahensis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 12
|mention_page=page 500
|treatment_page=page 510
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, bushlike, with subterranean caudices or rhizomes. <b>Stems</b> multiple, erect, zigzag or straight; branches distal or along entire stem, distal longest or all ± equal, antrorse, upcurved; hairy. <b>Leaves</b>: blade 17–56 × 5.8–28 mm, widest intersinus distance 1–4.9(–6) mm; proximal oblanceolate to elliptic, margins pinnate to pinnatisect, lobes 4–12, antrorse, 1.9–7.7 mm; distal elliptic to lanceolate, base not clasping, margins pinnate to pinnatisect, lobes 4–12, antrorse, 2.6–13.3 mm; abaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and occasionally complex grappling-hook and needlelike trichomes, adaxial surface with simple grappling-hook and needlelike trichomes. <b>Bracts</b>: margins entire. <b>Flowers</b>: petals golden yellow, 8.5–15.2 × 3.8–7.9 mm, apex acute to rounded, glabrous abaxially; stamens golden yellow, 5 outermost petaloid, filaments broadly spatulate, strongly clawed, 5–10.4 × 2.8–6 mm, with anthers, second whorl with anthers; anthers usually twisted after dehiscence, epidermis smooth; styles 5.8–8.5 mm. <b>Capsules</b> cup-shaped, 4.2–8.8 × 3.6–5.8 mm, base tapering to rounded, not longitudinally ridged. <b>Seeds</b>: coat anticlinal cell walls straight, papillae 4–7 per cell. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering May–Sep.
|habitat=Sparsely vegetated steep talus slopes and roadcuts.
|elevation=1500–2800 m.
|distribution=Colo.;Utah.
|discussion=<p><i>Mentzelia uintahensis</i> is known from northwestern Colorado (Rio Blanco, Mesa, and Moffat counties) and northeastern Utah (Carbon, Duchesne, and Uintah counties).</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Mentzelia uintahensis
|authority=(N. H. Holmgren & P. K. Holmgren) J. J. Schenk & L. Hufford
|rank=species
|parent rank=section
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Mentzelia multicaulis var. uintahensis
|family=Loasaceae
|phenology=Flowering May–Sep.
|habitat=Sparsely vegetated steep talus slopes and roadcuts.
|elevation=1500–2800 m.
|distribution=Colo.;Utah.
|reference=None
|publication title=Novon
|publication year=2009
|special status=Endemic
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V12/V12_1104.xml
|genus=Mentzelia
|section=Mentzelia sect. Bartonia
|species=Mentzelia uintahensis
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